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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily 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 several subjects that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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