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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs 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 lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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