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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are generally 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 numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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