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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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