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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly 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 a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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