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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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