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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing 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 education resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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