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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines 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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