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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open educational initiatives. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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