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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning enable humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are commonly free for students 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 topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the major 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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