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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 topics that distance learning organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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