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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students 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 many issues that elearning institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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