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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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