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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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