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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in electronic education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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