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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners 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 numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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