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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily 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 variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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