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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic educational technology enable people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are 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 online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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