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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always 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 several topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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