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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners 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 many topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Luxembourg to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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