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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not consistently 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 issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Malta to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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