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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners 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 numerous topics that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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