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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning enable learners in nations all aver the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are generally free for students 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 distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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