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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free 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 lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education ventures. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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