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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners 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 several issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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