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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in online education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally 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 numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)