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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily 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. There are many topics that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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