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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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