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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not 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 considering now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? 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 institutions like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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