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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily 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 a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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