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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are generally 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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