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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in digital education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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