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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes 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. These massive open online courses are generally 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 numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Singapore to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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