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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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