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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are commonly 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 many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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