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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs 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 organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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