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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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