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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students 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 several topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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