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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to better perceive these new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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