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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are usually 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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