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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic educational technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily 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 lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritania to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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