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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in online courses. These 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 several issues that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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