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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students 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 many subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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