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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 lot of issues that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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