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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free 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 quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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