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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students 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 lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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