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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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