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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning have enabled humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 several topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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