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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for students 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 a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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