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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. 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 lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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