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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily 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 topics that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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