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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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