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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Cook Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these significant new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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