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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are normally 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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