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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually 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 topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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