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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes 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 numerous subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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