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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free 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 a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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