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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally 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 variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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