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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners 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 several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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