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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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