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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in online education are making it possible for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are generally 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 a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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