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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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