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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning enable humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free 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 numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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