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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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