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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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