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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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