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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for students 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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