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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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