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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not 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 distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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