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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily 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 many subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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