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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in elearning technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. 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 MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 many topics that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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