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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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