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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally 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 issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the 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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