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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are commonly 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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