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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free 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 issues that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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