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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. 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. These massive open courses 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 learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Rutgers University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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