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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not 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 topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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