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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC 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 quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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