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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are generally free 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 many subjects that online education organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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