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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are normally 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 a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like University of South Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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