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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly 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 variety of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Isle of Man to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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