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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners 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 numerous subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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