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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have enabled students all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are usually free for students 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 topics that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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