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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily 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. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education ventures. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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