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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners 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 several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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