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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are normally 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 numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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