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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly 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 quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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