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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education are enabling students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Elidaemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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