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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently 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 subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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