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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for students 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 numerous subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ohio State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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