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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not 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 education institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better perceive these important new open educational ventures. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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