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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs 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 a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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