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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free 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 many subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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