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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC 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 variety of topics that online education organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to understand these fascinating new open education endeavours. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education