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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students 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 variety of issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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