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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online 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 numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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