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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners 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 several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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