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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are usually 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 many issues that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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