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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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