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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly 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 issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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