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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly 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 variety of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education ventures. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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