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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are customarily 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 numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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