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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology enable students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These 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 a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better perceive these important new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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