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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free 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 numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education ventures. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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