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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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