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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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