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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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