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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning make it possible for students all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 variety of topics that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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