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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 education institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better understand these new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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