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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are generally 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 several issues that learning technology organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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