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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are typically 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 learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Serbia to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. People want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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