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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not 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 a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these open educational endeavours. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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