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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners 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 many topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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