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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly 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 subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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