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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally free for students 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 several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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