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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. People want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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