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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Guyana to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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