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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners 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 elearning organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Guadeloupe to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Universities want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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