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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free 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. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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