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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning have empowered learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are usually 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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