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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are free for learners 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 a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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