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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ecotech Institute to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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