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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Martinique to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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