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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are 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 blended learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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