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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically 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 several topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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