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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs are mostly 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 lot of issues that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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