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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive open courses 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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