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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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