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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning enable learners all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are customarily 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 issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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