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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are normally free 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 numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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