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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in e-learning have empowered learners all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are usually 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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