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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are 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 a lot of topics that online education institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. People want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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