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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally 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 a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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