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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for students 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 e-learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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