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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free 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 a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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