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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually free for students 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 distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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