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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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