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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes 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 variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burundi to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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