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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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