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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs). As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Modern improvements in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates? How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation.

There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these MOOC courses? Higher education instructors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also considers the barriers associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). For more details please visit this MOOC book site.

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