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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are usually free 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 numerous topics that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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