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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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