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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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