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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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