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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically 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 many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. People want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also reviews 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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