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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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