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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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