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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free 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. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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