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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not 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 variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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