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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology enable students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always 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 a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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