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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are mostly 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 several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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