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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Clipperton Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better comprehend these important new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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