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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students 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 elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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