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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly 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 quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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