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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free 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 quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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