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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better understand these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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