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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online learning technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are free 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 e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like San Diego County Office of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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