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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education enable learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 numerous subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Maldives to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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