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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners 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 numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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