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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently 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 topics that elearning organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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