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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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