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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free 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 online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Boston University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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