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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are typically free 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 online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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