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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are usually 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 learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open education ventures. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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