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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open online 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. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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