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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are generally 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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