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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always 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 issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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