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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students 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 quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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