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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like The Bahamas to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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