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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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