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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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