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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are free for learners 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 learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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