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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning are empowering learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive 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 many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Educators want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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