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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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