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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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