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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in elearning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC 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 a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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