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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in online education technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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