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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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