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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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