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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC classes are usually free for students 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 issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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