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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology make it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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