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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are usually free for students 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 numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education ventures. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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