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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically 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 numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Barbados to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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