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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online education have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are free 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 quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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