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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic education technology enable humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily 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 subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like The Bahamas to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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