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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in blended learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are commonly 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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