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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in elearning enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are 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 a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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