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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 elearning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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