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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students 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 quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Indonesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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