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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in e-learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are typically 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 several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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