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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 a variety of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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