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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally 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 many topics that online learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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