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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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