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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology have enabled learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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 a variety of subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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