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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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