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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently 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 quite a few issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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