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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this growing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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