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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning make it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are free for learners 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 many subjects that elearning institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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