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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently 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 elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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