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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not always 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 subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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