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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education are empowering students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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