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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always 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 organizations are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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