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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not 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 several issues that online learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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