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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are almost always 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 numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the key 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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