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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always 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 several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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