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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are almost always 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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