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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners 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 several issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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