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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily 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 numerous issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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