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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Aland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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