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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly 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 numerous topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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