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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not 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 several subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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