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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 many issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better grasp these intriguing new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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