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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are free 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 quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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