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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free 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 learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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