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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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