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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free 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 several subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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