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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are 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 topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bulgaria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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