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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 numerous subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eritrea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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