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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses 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 many subjects that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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