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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are usually free but do not consistently 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 a lot of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these new open education endeavours. Scholars want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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