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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly 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 quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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