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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students 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 a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Croatia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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