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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology enable humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Baker Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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