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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in e-learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners 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 a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education ventures. People want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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