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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have empowered humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free 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 several issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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