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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily 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. There are several subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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