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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students 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 variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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