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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are almost always 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 several subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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