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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are generally free for students 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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