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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly 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 a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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