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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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