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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have enabled humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 variety of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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