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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are typically 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 many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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