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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently 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 education institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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