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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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