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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly 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 e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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