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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free 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 many topics that distance learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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