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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are normally 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 many issues that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Dominica to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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