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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not 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 numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Michigan to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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