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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in e-learning enable people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally 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 many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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