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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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