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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in online learning technology enable learners all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not 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 subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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