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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in digital education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are typically free 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations are considering today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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