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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education enable people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs 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 several topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kiribati to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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