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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are customarily 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 quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Pakistan to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open education undertakings. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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