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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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