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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are usually 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. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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