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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 numerous issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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