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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic educational technology are enabling students all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not 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 issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Morocco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education endeavours. Scientists want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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