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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 elearning technology organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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