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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in online education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are generally free 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 several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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