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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free 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. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education endeavours. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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