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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in elearning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are usually free for students 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 topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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