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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free 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. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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