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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically 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 a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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