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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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