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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning technology are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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