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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are making it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners 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 institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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