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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not 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 a lot of topics that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Honduras to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand these promising new open educational ventures. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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