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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free 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 a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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