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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners 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 many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tonga to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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