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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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