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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students 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 many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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