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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always 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 several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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