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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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