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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are 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 many issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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