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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 several topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to be more aware of these compelling new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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