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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally 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. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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