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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are free for learners 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 several subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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