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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning make it possible for people all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free 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 quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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