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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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