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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free 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 subjects that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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