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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are usually 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 several issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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