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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners 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 many issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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