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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively 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 a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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