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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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