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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are typically free 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. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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