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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 several subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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