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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners 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 elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the key 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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