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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always 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 technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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