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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are 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 a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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