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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning enable people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not 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 issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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