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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning enable people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are typically free for learners 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 issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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