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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly 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 variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand these fascinating new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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