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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are free for learners 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 a variety of subjects that online education institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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