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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in online education are enabling students in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major 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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