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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are generally free for students 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 numerous topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Colombia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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