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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners 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. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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