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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are free for students 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 subjects that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education initiatives. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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