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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 a variety of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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