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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online 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 a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Argentina to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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