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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students 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 a variety of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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