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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 a variety of issues that distance learning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these compelling new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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