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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning are enabling students all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are usually 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 subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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