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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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 a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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