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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are commonly free 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 several subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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