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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not consistently 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 several issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand these important new open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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