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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free 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 a lot of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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