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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are 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 lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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