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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology are enabling learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are free for students 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 e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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