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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not 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 issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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