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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually 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 a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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