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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for students 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 a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Utah to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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