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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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 quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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