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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for students 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 topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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