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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always 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 quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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