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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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