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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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