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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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