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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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