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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in digital education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always 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 a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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