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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally 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 quite a few issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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