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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily 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 subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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