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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in elearning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always 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 many issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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