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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are generally free 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 lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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