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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always 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 issues that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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