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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly 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 topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative 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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