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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. 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. These massively open online courses are 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 topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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