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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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