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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in blended learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently 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 variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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