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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students 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 a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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