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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are 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 numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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