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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free 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 quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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