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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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