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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners 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 numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Professors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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