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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily 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 many issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these important new open education ventures. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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