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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not always 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 issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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