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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners 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 a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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