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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are typically 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 a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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