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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners 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 education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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