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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not always 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 online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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