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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 many issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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