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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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