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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently 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 issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also studies the key 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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