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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC 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 subjects that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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