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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 several subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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