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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs 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 many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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