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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for students 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 many subjects that online learning institutions are considering now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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