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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are normally free 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 many issues that online education organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these massive open online courses? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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