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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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