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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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 numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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