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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 many subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Clemson University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these interesting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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