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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not 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 many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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