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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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