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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are usually free 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 a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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