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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are usually 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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