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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are usually 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 topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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