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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free for students 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 lot of issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Honduras to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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