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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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