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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are typically 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 several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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