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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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