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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners 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 issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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