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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in elearning make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly 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 online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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