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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are generally 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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