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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are free for students 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 quite a few topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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