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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently 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 variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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