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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning have enabled students in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily 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 many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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