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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also talks about 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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