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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are almost always 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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