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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not always 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 numerous subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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