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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Students want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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