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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always 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 numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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