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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in elearning are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students 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 subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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