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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free 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 issues that online education organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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