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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 numerous topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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