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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners 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 several topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these compelling new open education undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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