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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are mostly free 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 many topics that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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