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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free 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 subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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