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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are usually free 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 a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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