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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically 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. There are several issues that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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