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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners 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 topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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