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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly 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 quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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