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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 topics that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Arizona State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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