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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly 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 many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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