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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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