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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students 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 a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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