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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are free for students 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 a lot of topics that online education institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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