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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education technology enable students all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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