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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for students 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 many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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