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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily 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 issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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