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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically 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 several issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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