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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are generally 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 several subjects that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Utah State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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