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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open education initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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