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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students 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 lot of issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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