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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are usually free 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 a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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