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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are 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 a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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