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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students 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 several topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Korea, South to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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