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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly 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 variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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