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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally 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 a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are considering today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This exciting new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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