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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily 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 many subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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