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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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