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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are almost always 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 a variety of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these new open education ventures. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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