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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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