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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic education technology make it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners 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 issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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