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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are usually 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 several subjects that elearning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these significant new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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