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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are generally 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 numerous topics that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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