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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently 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 numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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