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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning technology enable students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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