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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily 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 many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important 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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