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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free 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 quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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