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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always 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 several topics that online learning institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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