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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students 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 a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better grasp these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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