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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are normally free 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 a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Slovakia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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