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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning technology enable learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses 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 MOOC courses are free but do not always 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 institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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