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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are 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 a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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