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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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