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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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