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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always 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 a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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