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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are 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 a lot of topics that online learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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