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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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