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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally 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 a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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