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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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 online MOOC courses are normally free for learners 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 a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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