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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic educational technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students 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 a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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