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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always 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 variety of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. People want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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