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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners 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 a variety of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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