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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually 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 several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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