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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are typically 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 a variety of subjects that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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