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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly 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 issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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