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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not 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 institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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