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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly 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 a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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