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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free 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 a variety of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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