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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive online 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 a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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