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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily 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 quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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