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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners 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 numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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