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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs 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 topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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