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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily 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 several subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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