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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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