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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are almost always free but do not 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 variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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