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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic education technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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