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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always 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. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education initiatives. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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