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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free for students 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 several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better grasp these open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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