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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always 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 several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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