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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are mostly free for students 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 numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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