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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not 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 e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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