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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are typically 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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