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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are usually 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 subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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