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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free 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 several issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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