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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online learning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs 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 a lot of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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