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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC 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 lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better grasp these important new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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