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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are free for students 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 numerous topics that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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