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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 many topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Togo to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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