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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in elearning are enabling learners all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not 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 subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guam to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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