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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses 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 quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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