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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic education technology are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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