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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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