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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are free 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 a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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