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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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