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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning technology make it possible for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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