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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in digital education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Gabon to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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