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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in electronic education technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners 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 a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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