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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally 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 several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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