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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes online. 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 many subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open educational ventures. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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