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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners 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 numerous subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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