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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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