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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning make it possible for students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are almost always 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 numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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