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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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