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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly 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 many issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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