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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always 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 numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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