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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open educational endeavours. Students want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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