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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 subjects that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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