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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are mostly 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 numerous subjects that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open education undertakings. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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