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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology enable students in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are generally 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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