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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally 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 many issues that elearning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Costa Rica to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Professors want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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