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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are 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 numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC courses? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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