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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. 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. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently 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 several issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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