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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are commonly free 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 variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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