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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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