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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning enable humans all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 several issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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