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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for students 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 topics that online education institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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