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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are usually free for students 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 lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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