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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not 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 online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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