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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students 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 a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational endeavours. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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