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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are free but do not consistently 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 a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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