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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open 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 many issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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