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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free 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 distance learning institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational undertakings. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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