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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are almost always free 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 many topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Slovenia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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