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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not 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 many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Slovakia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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