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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free 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 topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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