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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also studies the major 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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