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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly 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 several subjects that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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