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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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