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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC 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 quite a few subjects that elearning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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