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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always 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 topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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