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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC classes are free 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 many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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