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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning enable humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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