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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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