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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are free 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 subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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