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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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