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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in electronic education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly 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 quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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