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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally 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 numerous issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also articulates the key 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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