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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses 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. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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