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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are customarily 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 issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open educational ventures. Teachers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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