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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not 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 subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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