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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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