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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These massive 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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