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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly 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 several topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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