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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for students 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 many issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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