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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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