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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in e-learning enable humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always 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 topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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