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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently 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 online learning technology institutions are considering today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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