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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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