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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently 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 a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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