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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in elearning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 variety of issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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