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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are typically 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 lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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