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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 several issues that online learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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