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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are 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 having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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