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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education have enabled humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students 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 several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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