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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always 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 lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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