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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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