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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners 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 many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education ventures. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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