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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning enable students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily 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 several topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Seychelles to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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