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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are free 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 several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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